ORDER

Heard the learned Senior counsel Sri P S Rajagopal on behalf of the petitioners along with Sri B O Anil Kumar and the learned AAG on behalf of the official respondents No.1 to 4 and the learned Senior counsel Sri M S Bhagwat on behalf of the private respondents No.5 to 8, 10 to 12 and respondents No 14 and 15 and the learned counsel Sri S V Narasimhan for respondent Nos.9 and 13.

2. The 26 petitioners before this Court were amongst the

132 applicants who were before the Tribunal and the respondents No.1 to 7 herein were arrayed in the same order before the Tribunal and the respondents No.8 to 15 got themselves impleaded before the Tribunal. The respondents No.16 to 121 were applicants before the Tribunal and in that view the applicants sail with the petitioners herein.

PLEADINGS ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANTS BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL

3. The brief canvassed before the Tribunal was that the official respondents have determined their seniority list in gross violation of statutory requirement and have prayed that the inter se seniority list dated 19.11.2020, in so far as it concerns respondents No.5 to 7 be quashed and further issue a writ of mandamus and thereby direct the official responde